Precursor Ventures

Precursor Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. Specializing in pre-seed and seed-stage investments, the firm focuses on early-stage companies primarily in the consumer, digital health, education, fintech, marketplace, and software sectors. Precursor Ventures emphasizes investing in B2B and B2C applications, including hardware, and prefers to target opportunities within the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Toronto, while remaining open to other regions. The firm typically invests between $0.1 million and $0.25 million per company. Precursor Ventures prioritizes investing in people over products, reflecting its commitment to supporting entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of their journeys.

Marina Girgis

Senior Associate

Ashtan Jordan

Principal

Ayanna Kerrison

Senior Associate

Past deals in Social Media

Campus

Series A in 2023
Campuswire is a real-time messaging platform designed specifically for college classes, aimed at enhancing communication between students and educators. The platform facilitates class discussions, question-and-answer sessions, and announcements, ultimately optimizing the teaching and learning experience. By integrating both synchronous and asynchronous messaging features, Campuswire promotes increased student collaboration and simplifies educators' workflows. Its user-friendly interface, inspired by social media, enables professors to efficiently share important information, engage in online discussions, and privately communicate with individual students. Through its innovative approach, Campuswire is committed to addressing challenges in educational communication and fostering a more collaborative learning environment.

Pico

Series A in 2023
Pico is a company that designs and develops audience relationship management software solutions tailored for online businesses. Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, it provides pre-made templates equipped with high-converting Facebook and Google sign-in buttons. Pico's platform caters to various sectors, including newsletters, e-commerce, subscriptions, memberships, and donations. Its services are particularly beneficial for small and midsize businesses that aim to foster close-knit communities around content and identity, such as local newsrooms, trade publications, and non-profit organizations.

Brkaway

Funding Round in 2022
Brkaway is a platform that facilitates connections between brands and content creators, focusing on the production of short-form video content tailored for social media channels such as TikTok and Instagram Reels. By providing software that streamlines the content creation process, Brkaway allows brands to efficiently acquire the video material they require while ensuring that creators are compensated for their work. This model not only enhances the collaboration between brands and creators but also simplifies ongoing branded content production, making it accessible and effective for both parties involved.

Bravado

Series B in 2022
Bravado Network, Inc. is an online community platform designed specifically for sales professionals. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a range of online tools and hosts in-person events aimed at empowering its members. Bravado focuses on helping sales professionals enhance their personal brands, connect with peers, and improve their skills in the sales field. Through its community-driven approach, Bravado seeks to amplify the voices of sales professionals and foster a supportive environment for career growth and development.

Influent

Funding Round in 2021
Provider of marketing services intended to help creators to compare payments. The company offers services like brand analysis, talent sourcing, strategy and optimization of content performance, helping creators get a fair value for their work, and brands to run campaigns or content creation on social media.

MashApp Music

Funding Round in 2021
People love creation and sharing apps. Instagram lets everyone feel like a pro photographer. TikTok lets everyone feel like a filmmaker. But why isn’t there an app that lets everyone feel like a music producer? MashApp's mission is to make music creation fun for non-musicians. We believe one way to do that is to let people play with their favorite music. We think people have always done this through DJ'ing, mix tapes, mashups and karaoke. We believe that new A.I. technologies will take this type of musical play to another level. We want this new creative play to be a great experience for fans and artists. You can mashup popular songs, share your creations with friends via messaging apps, listen to mashups from the MashApp community, and follow your favorite creators.

Pico

Venture Round in 2021
Pico is a company that designs and develops audience relationship management software solutions tailored for online businesses. Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, it provides pre-made templates equipped with high-converting Facebook and Google sign-in buttons. Pico's platform caters to various sectors, including newsletters, e-commerce, subscriptions, memberships, and donations. Its services are particularly beneficial for small and midsize businesses that aim to foster close-knit communities around content and identity, such as local newsrooms, trade publications, and non-profit organizations.

Salut

Seed Round in 2020
Salut Interactive, Inc. is an online platform based in San Francisco, California, that facilitates virtual fitness experiences. Launched in 2020, the platform enables fitness trainers to schedule, stream, and monetize live video workouts while providing users the opportunity to participate in these sessions. Participants can connect with trainers and fellow users, fostering a sense of community and motivation. By offering a space for live interactions, Salut helps individuals maintain their fitness routines from home, making health and wellness more accessible.

The Juggernaut

Seed Round in 2020
The Juggernaut is a digital media publication that documents the unstoppable rise of South Asians and South Asia. It was founded in 2018.

Sparrows

Funding Round in 2020
Developer of a social network platform designed to connect professionals. The company's platform allows users to create a profile and adds personality, depth, and context to their professional presence by adding who they are, what they do, what they stand for, their favorite things, and their inspiration, enabling users to identify people who have things in common and help each person showcase themselves in the most meaningful way possible.

Patio

Funding Round in 2020
Patio is a private communication platform tailored for college students, facilitating connections based on shared interests. With over 100,000 verified users, the application enables students to create accounts using their college email addresses, allowing them to join public or private groups related to their interests. This feature fosters a safe environment where students, including freshmen, can engage in conversations and build social networks within their campus community. By providing a space for meaningful interactions, Patio enhances the social experience of college life.

Campus

Seed Round in 2019
Campuswire is a real-time messaging platform designed specifically for college classes, aimed at enhancing communication between students and educators. The platform facilitates class discussions, question-and-answer sessions, and announcements, ultimately optimizing the teaching and learning experience. By integrating both synchronous and asynchronous messaging features, Campuswire promotes increased student collaboration and simplifies educators' workflows. Its user-friendly interface, inspired by social media, enables professors to efficiently share important information, engage in online discussions, and privately communicate with individual students. Through its innovative approach, Campuswire is committed to addressing challenges in educational communication and fostering a more collaborative learning environment.

The Juggernaut

Seed Round in 2019
The Juggernaut is a digital media publication that documents the unstoppable rise of South Asians and South Asia. It was founded in 2018.

Bravado

Series A in 2019
Bravado Network, Inc. is an online community platform designed specifically for sales professionals. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a range of online tools and hosts in-person events aimed at empowering its members. Bravado focuses on helping sales professionals enhance their personal brands, connect with peers, and improve their skills in the sales field. Through its community-driven approach, Bravado seeks to amplify the voices of sales professionals and foster a supportive environment for career growth and development.

Bravado

Series A in 2019
Bravado Network, Inc. is an online community platform designed specifically for sales professionals. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, the company provides a range of online tools and hosts in-person events aimed at empowering its members. Bravado focuses on helping sales professionals enhance their personal brands, connect with peers, and improve their skills in the sales field. Through its community-driven approach, Bravado seeks to amplify the voices of sales professionals and foster a supportive environment for career growth and development.

Pico

Seed Round in 2019
Pico is a company that designs and develops audience relationship management software solutions tailored for online businesses. Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, it provides pre-made templates equipped with high-converting Facebook and Google sign-in buttons. Pico's platform caters to various sectors, including newsletters, e-commerce, subscriptions, memberships, and donations. Its services are particularly beneficial for small and midsize businesses that aim to foster close-knit communities around content and identity, such as local newsrooms, trade publications, and non-profit organizations.

Squad

Seed Round in 2018
Squad is a social tech platform to help people grow and strengthen their connections across all of their different communities. Squad’s mission and foundation has always been rooted in cultivating strong community. Starting out as a passion project, Squad was created to host unique intimate event experiences among young professionals. After launching in NYC, the community grew astronomically, garnering a high demand and an infectious buzz from cities around the world. With plans to expand globally, our analytics showed the average Squad member was under three pillars: the young Millennial or Gen-Z, the college-educated professional, and the seekers of a safe space to share experiences beyond social media. ‍ In 2019, in order to fuel expansion, Squad decided to build a big business concept based on these three pillars. They complemented the community experience with an innovative mobile app, expanding its reach beyond New York City. Today, we are proud to have an awesome community of entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, financiers, musicians, techies, creatives and other individuals who are such incredibly dope human beings.

AMI

Seed Round in 2018
Sell with AMI is an app that empowers social sellers to grow their business connections from anywhere.

Campfire

Funding Round in 2017
Campfire is an online platform designed to foster supportive community groups for individuals facing various life challenges. It connects small groups of 5 to 10 people who share similar experiences, allowing them to build meaningful relationships through weekly video meetings and private chats. The platform aims to provide a safe space for users to seek help and share their emotional and mental stress, promoting well-being and connection among participants.

The Relish

Convertible Note in 2017
The Relish Media Group, Inc. is a sports media company based in San Francisco, California, focused on engaging female sports fans. Founded in 2016, it offers a weekly newsletter that delivers sports news, updates, and content directly to subscribers' inboxes on Mondays and Thursdays. The Relish also operates a digital sports video network that provides social content tailored for female audiences, fostering discussions about sports and related topics. By aiming to democratize sports media, the company seeks to connect and empower female fans and underrepresented groups, ensuring they are informed about current trends and events within the sports world.

Clutch

Convertible Note in 2016
Developer of an online gaming platform intended to share personal game clips and moments. The company's application help in sharing short gameplay clips of various gaming tournaments and battles stored from PC, Xbox, Playstation, and Nintendo Switch, enabling users to find community, share their best gaming highlights, and improve their gaming skils.

Heymarket

Seed Round in 2016
Heymarket is omnichannel messaging with customers. It provides business grade features, like shared inboxes, assignments, templates, and reminders, for SMS and Facebook Messenger. With Heymarket, businesses can communicate with customers and partners with the channels they're most comfortable with. Heymarket's native iOS and Android apps that have been featured. The web app includes powerful administrative features to help businesses manage permissions, messages, contacts, and integrations.

Workhood

Funding Round in 2016
Developer of a location-based social networking platform designed for users to connect with the people working around them. The company's social networking platform offers its users local insight and up-to-date information specific to the user's shared area, enabling users to see on their news feed information relevant to their community.
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